M with Stocking, 2010. Mixed Media is a captivating piece. This artwork is a powerful blend of photographic realism and expressive text. Centered in a monochrome palette, a figure poses elegantly against an intricate, vintage-patterned backdrop, evoking a sense of timeless allure. The surrounding script, bold and cursive, cascades fluidly across the composition, adding layers of narrative and mystery. The juxtaposition of the soft, textured upholstery with the stark, raw expression of the subject creates a captivating tension, drawing the viewer into an intimate dialogue. Splashes of color subtly punctuate the scene, introducing bursts of dynamism and vitality. This piece masterfully combines elements of visual storytelling with artistic abstraction, inviting contemplation and introspection.
This one of a kind intervened artworks produced in 2009 and 2010 marks Isaza's artistic shift from traditional fashion photography into fine art. It was at this time that Isaza began to explore beyond the camera lens through the process of applying physical interventions onto his printed images - using paint, crayon, tape, graphite and other such unconventional materials. This process gave him an avenue to explore photography to a larger developed scale, giving space for his female subjects to be depicted with more of a sense of grandeur.
M with Stocking, 2010. Mixed Media
M with Stocking, 2010
Archival pigment photograph printed onto canvas Intervened with paint, ink and intentionally scratched by the artist.
Dimensions: 66 H x 55 W in.
Unique
Framed.
Efren Isaza, one of Colombia’s most influential fashion photographers, initially studied fashion design. He united his interest in fashion with one of his earliest passions: photography. Graceful female figures lounge in fashionable poses. Paper costumes that seem borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes.
Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal photographic experiments. Frida Kahlo’s face with her dark, furrowed eyebrows, peers at the viewer out of different scenes; her hair is knotted artfully on her head.The allusions evoked in the imaginative creations of Colombian Fashion photographer Isaza are diverse: he cites and alienates an arsenal of styles before melding them into new compositions OF ONE OF A KIND LIMITED EDITION ARTWORK. It might be a certain scene, a poem, a petal of a flower, or the idea of a person that inspires a new work. His passion for breaking the boundaries of traditional fashion photography is palpable in each of Isaza’s unique works. He is less concerned with fashion than the image, the play of contrasts and the magic and the emotions sometimes saturnine,sometimes buoyant, sometimes surreal, and yet always beguiling that the image transports.
